Heel for boots or shoes



(No Model.)

N. S. BRAKE.

HEEL EOE BOOTS 0E SHOES. No. 479,560'. Patented July 26, 1892.

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NATH ANIEL S. DRAKE, OF PITTSFIELD, NEV HAMPSHIRE HEEL FOR BOOTS ORSHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,560, dated July2,6, 1892. Application filed February 8, 1889. Serial No. 299,180. (Nomodel.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL S. BRAKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsfield, in the county of Merrimac and State of NewHampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heels for Bootsor Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to the 'herein-described improvement in boot andshoe heelblanks, which consists in a detached heel having a number ofskeleton lifts made from Whole or entire lifts by the removal ofinterior sections, which sections are not waste, but serve for lifts insmallerheels, and ablock of wood or other material inserted into thecavity of the skeleton lifts, and the exposed or upper surface of whichis shaped to provide a concave heel-seat.

Referring to the drawings, Figures l and 3 are views of skeleton lifts.resent sections removed from them. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of a core orplug used to ll the cavity of the heel. Fig. 7 is a sectional Viewrepresenting a heel attached to the sole of a boot or shoe, and Fig. 8is a view in perspective of an attached and finished heel.

In practicing the invention a number of lifts of leather or othersuitable material of the central and lower part of the heel are formedin the usual way by dieing or dinking, and the interior sections thenremoved by dieing or (linking to form smaller lifts.

A represents one of the skeleton lifts, and a the section or liftremoved therefrom,form ing in the skeleton lift the cavity a. Theremoved section or blank o, is not waste, but is used to form the liftof another smaller heel, and where of good stock it may be used for atop lift. The skeleton lifts form the exterior of the central and lowerparts of the heel.

B is a block or plug, preferably of wood, of a size to snugly fit thecavity d of a number of lifts. This block has a iiat tread or lowersurface b and a concave seat b2.

The cavity in the heel-blank is extended deeper into the heel and of twosizes, and is Figs. 2 and et rep? so shaped that the block or plug ofWood or other material has sections corresponding in size to thesections of the cavitye-namely, the section b3, which fits the smallerorinner part of the cavity, the section h4, which lits the larger partof the cavity, and the shoulder h5. The various skeleton lifts areunited to each other and to the plug preferably by fish-glue or otheradhesive substance under some pressure, and there is applied to thesurface b of the block and to the lowermost of the lifts (in Fig. 7represented as the uppermost, because the heel is shown inverted) one ormore full or solid lifts, and these are also preferably united to theremainder of the heel by glue or other adhesive material, or by nails orother fastenings. The complete heel is secured to the sole of the bootor shoe by nails c, driven through the lift or lifts and plug, and theseat of the heel thus brought and held against the surface of theoutsole. A heel made in this way possesses the appearance of a solidleather heel, and is substantially as durable as a solid leather heel.It possesses all the features of a solid leather heelso far as theappearance and wear are concerned, and is cheaper to make and is alsolighter. It is cheaper because the removed sections of the lifts areutilizable in the construction of other or smaller heels, as ordinarylifts and as top lifts, and by making the block B large near the seat Iam enabled to obtain larger removed lifts or blanks from the upper liftsof the heel. The block or plug being of wood or other easily molded orworked material affords means whereby an accurate concave heel-seat maybe cheaply and easily formed and before it is inserted into the cavityof the heel-blank, and by thus forming the heelseat I am enabled to savethe expense of molding the heel to form such heel-seat, also theoperation of molding, or, where a molded effect is obtained by a rand,of the rand, and to obtain a heel-seat of better shape than that usuallyfound in a molded all-leather heel-blank, the cavity of the fillingblock or IOO Having thus fully described rny invention, the tread-blanksand skeleton lifts outside of I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent the edges of the block or plug, said skeleton of the UnitedStateslifts being arranged to bring the greatest body As an improvedarticle of manufacture, a of leather toward the tread of the heel-blank,5 heel-blank Zcpmprising a block or plug having substantially asdescribed.

a shoulder and an inner concave heel-seat 1 depression b2, skeletonlifts of varying Widths NATHANIEL S' BRAKE' surrounding said block orplug, and one or In presence ofmore tread-lifts applied to the block orplug HARRY C. LANCASTER., ro and secured by fastenings passing throughH. E. DARLING.

